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Semantics, culture, and cognition : universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations
- Title
- Semantics, culture, and cognition : universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations / Anna Wierzbicka.
- Author
- Wierzbicka, Anna.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 487 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo-culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings, including the most culture-specific ones, can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language Semantics, culture, and cognition isaccessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subject
- Linguistic universals
- Semantics
- Language and culture
- Intercultural communication
- Psycholinguistics
- Semantics
- Psycholinguistics
- semantics
- psycholinguistics
- Intercultural communication
- Language and culture
- Linguistic universals
- Begriff
- Bezeichnung
- Kognition
- Kultur
- Kulturvergleich
- Nationalcharakter
- Sprache
- Sprachliche Universalien
- Universalien
- Taaluniversalia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- [pt.] 1. Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and ethnophilosophy. Soul, mind, and heart -- Fate and destiny -- [pt.] 2. Emotions across cultures. Are emotions universal or culture-specific? -- Describing the indescribable -- [pt.] 3. Moral concepts across cultures. Apatheia, smirenie, humility -- Courage, bravery, recklessness -- [pt.] 4. Names and titles. Personal names and expressive derivation -- Titles and other forms of address -- [pt.] 5. Kinship semantics. Lexical universals and psychological reality -- 'Alternate generations' in Australian aboriginal languages -- [pt.] 6. Language as mirror of culture and 'national character.' Australian English -- The Russian language.
- ISBN
- 0195073258
- 9780195073256
- 0195073266
- 9780195073263
- LCCN
- 91022152
- OCLC
- ocm24010651
- 24010651
- SCSB-1963826
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library